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Search and browse About sections of HN profiles

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#hacker news#hn profiles#search#about section

27points
9comments
#838of 1,739 in 2013
Top 49%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.

Idea: 3 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Nice design

    From 2 comments
    • You can actually use HNSearch for that[1]. Which is one of the things I've used to create HNWho a few years ago: http://www.hnwho.com/ But I really like this design though. [1]…
      DanielRibeiro on HN
    • Nice. I'll be using this for hiring!
      pbiggar on HN
  • Useful for finding people by location

    From 1 comment
    • Nice - I used this to search my current city. Someone mooted a #HNMeetup in Brisbane recently [1], to 3 responses - now I know there are 21 people who list it in their profile,…
      JacobAldridge on HN

Objections

  • Cannot match partial words in search

    From 1 comment
    • It would be nice to be able to search for parts of words. For example, typing "metamorphium" isn't enough to bring up my profile. I have to type the full "metamorphium.com"
      guptaneil on HN

Requests

  • Highlight search terms in results

    From 1 comment
    • could you highlight the search term? There are plenty of jQuery plugins to do it. Here's one:…
      Flenser on HN

Alternatives named

  • HNSearch user search

    From 1 comment
    • You can actually use HNSearch for that[1]. Which is one of the things I've used to create HNWho a few years ago: http://www.hnwho.com/ But I really like this design though. [1]…
      DanielRibeiro on HN
  • HNWho

    From 1 comment
    • You can actually use HNSearch for that[1]. Which is one of the things I've used to create HNWho a few years ago: http://www.hnwho.com/ But I really like this design though. [1]…
      DanielRibeiro on HN

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